Quotes About Self

It is not an "imitation of Christ" but its exact opposite: an assimilation of the Christ-image to his own self, which is the "true man."349 It is no longer an effort, an intentional straining after imitation, but rather an involuntary experience of the reality represented by the sacred legend. This

just as the wounder wounds himself, so the healer heals himself.

There were things in the images which concerned not only myself but many others also. It was then that I ceased to belong to myself alone

Równie dobrze mo?na ja?n okreÅ›li? jako ,,Boga w nas

He who would fathom the psyche must not confuse it with consciousness, else he veils from his own sight the object he wishes to explore.

ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a

But in the second case the subject is and remains the centre of every interest.

The unconscious is pure nature, and, like nature, pours out its gifts in profusion. But left to itself and without the human response from consciousness, it can (again like nature) destroy its own gifts and sooner or later sweep them into annihilation.

That the highest summit of life can be expressed through the symbolism of death is a well-known fact, for any growing beyond oneself means death.

It is the same problem as in Job. As the highest value and supreme dominant in the psychic hierarchy, the God-image is immediately related to, or identical with, the self, and everything that happens to the God-image has an effect on the latter. Any uncertainty about the God-image causes a profound uneasiness in the self, for which reason the question is generally ignored because of its painfulness. But that does not mean that it remains unasked in the unconscious.

Life has addressed a question to me... or conversely, I myself am a question.

I had the distinct feeling that they were something central, and in time I acquired through them a living conception of the self.

What a terrifying thing it is to be yourself

A child, as I have said, possesses a sense of completeness, but only before the initial emergence of his ego-consciousness. In the case of an adult, a sense of completeness is achieved through a union of the consciousness with the unconscious contents of the mind. Out of this union arises what Jung called "the transcendent function of the psyche," by which a man can achieve his highest goal: the full realization of the potential of his individual Self.

In reality, the source of all these differences is, that the savage lives within himself, while the social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the consciousness of his own existence merely from the judgment of others concerning him. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Together, we remain comfortable. Alone, we remain unique.

Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.

A little self-reflection, however, makes clear that our brains are hardly ever actually thinking about nothing. Even without a specific task, they tend to remain highly active, with thoughts and ideas flitting by in an ongoing noisy chatter. On further self-reflection, Lieberman realized that this background hum of activity tends to focus on a small number of targets: thoughts about "other people, yourself, or both.

Anthony Storr helped correct this omission with his seminal book, Solitude: A Return to the Self.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

L'universo esprimerà se stesso fin tanto che qualcuno potrà dire "io leggo dunque esso scrive

There are two things in the world you must never give up on...And those two things are yourself and love.

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When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.